Safechuck has joined the lawsuit filed by Australian choreographer Wade Robson, 31, who says Jackson made him perform sexual acts on him.

Both boys had denied that Jackson ever sexually abused them. Safechuck is now married with two children of his own and is a computer programmer.

A source close to him told The Daily Beast “once you start having children and you see what it’s all about … your perspective on life changes.”

“It’s the same type of sex abuse claim as Wade’s,” the source said. “Only with a different set of facts … and dates.” According to the source, Safechuck alleges that he “was molested from the age of 10 to about 14 or 15.”

Sprung ... Michael Jackson catches a child played by James Safechuck in his dressing room in a 1987 Pepsi commercial.Source: Supplied

Michael Jackson in 1989.Source: AP

The source says Safechuck was abused from the age of 10 until about 15. Safechuck went on many Pepsi sponsored trips with Jackson during that time, travelling with the singer to Hawaii and England

In court documents filed ahead of Jackson’s 2005 trial, employees at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch were quoted as saying they saw the singer in a hot tub with his hands “down the front of Jimmy’s underpants and was manipulating the boy’s genitalia.”

A maid also said in those court documents that she saw Jackson and Safechuck in bed together without shirts on. A judge ruled that the jury couldn’t hear this evidence because Safechuck claimed at the time that nothing inappropriate happened.

Adding some weight to Safechuck’s claims, Jackson’s sister La Toya said in a 1994 TV interview that she and her mother Katherine Jackson found a cancelled check Michael had written to one of the boys. While she didn’t name the child she said “the father, supposedly, is a garbage collector.”

Jackson’s home ... The gates of Neverland Ranch where James Safechuck stayed on many occasions.Source: News Limited

James Safechuck’s father was at the time, and still is, a garbage collector.

La Toya came out against her brother then saying she could not be a “silent collaborator” to Jackson’s “crimes against innocent children.”

“This has been going on since 1981 ... and it’s not just one child.”

She recanted those statements later saying she was being pressured by her husband, Jack Gordon.

Harry Weitzman, attorney for the Michael Jackson estate, released the below statement in response to the claims.

“Twenty five years after the fact and five years after Michael Jackson passed away Mr. Safechuck - who has many times over the years denied Michael Jackson did anything inappropriate to him - is now demanding money from Michael’s Estate by claiming he suddenly recalls life differently.

“His new story is that Wade Robson’s nearly identical lawsuit filed a year ago by the same attorney caused him to now recall certain events. Of course, Michael is not here to defend himself. Nonetheless, we believe these false and scurrilous allegations will not prevail.”